A friend of mine likes to tell a story about his mother, who taught Elementary School back in the '30s. She only had a two-year degree, with no special training in education. He asked her, once, if any of her students failed to learn to read. After a moment's thought, she replied, "Yes, there were a few, but they didn't learn anything else, either." The point here is, most children can learn to read, but some of them take a little bit more help than others, and a few need specialized help.
Well, to be fair, why should a teacher pay much much more attention to one child over any other child?
Maybe because that extra attention will prevent that child from being left behind? Sometimes, that's the difference between a child who ends up functionally illiterate and one who reads slowly, but effectively.
Considering the way lazy teachers use a diagnosis of dyslexia as an excuse for not doing their job and teaching all their students to read, they may well be. (Yes, I do know that there really is such a thing as dyslexia -- I have a friend who's severely dyslexic [He still reads more books every year than most people because he doesn't let it stop him.] -- but most children who are diagnosed with it can and do learn if they ever encounter a teacher who's willing to put in the effort, or a program to teach children how to read.) A century ago, the idea that anybody could reach sixth grade without being literate would have been considered absurd; today, it's a given.
And let us not forget 4) not tied to any specific computer architecture or OS. It should be usable from Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac or whatever else you want to use.
I never said those two were the best; just that they're my personal favorites. There's something about having a flying saucer crashed through the wall over the main entrance that tickles my fancy.
She also talks about the climate "going back to normal." Either she's a fraud or an ignoramus, because when it comes to climate, the only thing normal is change. The climate is always getting warmer or colder and the "normal" she's babbling on about is nothing other than the tag end of the Little Ice Age.
Alas, only about a third of them have themes. Of those, my personal favorite is the Burbank Fry's: Alien Invasions of the '50s. The one in the City of Industry is rather cool, too: it's designed to look like the inside of a factory.
In TFA, Matthew Richards is quoted as saying, "We didn't achieve mass customization of cars until Ford thought up the assembly line." No, Mr. Richards, that's not what Ford's assembly line achieved. It achieved mass production of essentially identical cars. That's why, for many years, you could buy a Ford in any color you wanted, as long as you wanted black. Similarly, you can use this software to produce any custom Linux you want, as long as you want it based on Open SuSe.
Notice how universally it is panned as being useless, despite being exactly the type of security model you advocate?
I've never had to deal with it, and as I don't "do" Windows, I probably never will. However, I get the impression that Vista's UAC is hated because it pops up that dialog for every, single, solitary change that's made while you're installing a program, even though you've already given the Administrator password. And, while I'm thinking of it, UAC may be based on the Linux security model, but it's certainly not a copy of it. In Linux, you give the password once, when the installation program starts, and and that's all the authorization needed. I've done system updates with forty or more packages being downloaded and installed, with old versions removed, and except for checking with me to make sure that I want it to go ahead (It asks me once, and once only, for the entire transaction.) It Just Works.
It all depends on how you look at it. As an end-user of email, you're right. Almost no spam gets into the inbox on my gmail account. Some gets through the filters on my POP3 accounts, though, but most of that gets caught by the filters in Thunderbird. However, I'd bet that the people running and maintaining mail servers at ISPs wouldn't agree with you because spam is probably wasting at least as much of their bandwidth as ever. We don't see it because their filters have gotten pretty good, but then, the time, CPU cycles, memory and disk space needed for those programs adds, slightly, to the cost of business of every provider, as does that bandwidth I mentioned above. I'd bet that if spam were to "softly and silently vanish away, and never be seen again," our monthly ISP fees would drop.
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
Somehow, your.sig seems remarkably appropriate for this comment. I congratulate you! Besides, I'm always ready to appreciate a quote from First Lensman, a long-forgotten classic of space opera.
Expect Microsoft to offer to ship a version of Windows without any web browser. So you won't be able to download firefox either!
Shrug! So, you download it on another box and transfer it with a thumb drive. Or, if that's not good enough for you, there's always command line ftp. I'm no more a Microsoft fanboi than you are, but at least I don't try to hide behind straw men.
but without some force acting on whatever is moving through time, it would follow the exact same trajectory as the surface of the planet.
You do realize, don't you, that the Earth's path through space is curved, and that a curved trajectory requires acceleration? If there weren't any force acting on the car, it would continue moving in a straight line tangent to the Earth's position at the time the acceleration stopped.
We are all moving through space relative to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, but we don't need to be space ships because, relative to the surface of the Earth, we're not moving and and that's the frame of reference we're most interested in. In the Back to the Future movies, the DeLorian moved in time, but stayed close enough to its original position (relative to the Earth) that there wasn't ever a problem. The only time there'd be trouble would be if shifting your position in time caused you to stay in the same position relative to far away galaxies while the Earth continued to move. In terms of physics, that might be the most logical outcome of time travel, but I've always found the "staying in one place on the Earth's surface" form of time travel to be more plausible. I wouldn't swear to it, but I can't, off hand, think of an SF story about time travel that didn't work that way. If so, the BTTF movies are just conforming to the conventional treatment of time travel.
So they chose microsoft *shrug* if they had chosen adobe would we still be having this conversation?
No. That would have been a non-story because there are plugins for Flash for all modern browsers running under (probably) any modern OS that you care to use. That would make it easy for anybody who wanted to watch the inauguration through the official website, instead of excluding everybody who isn't using Windows.
I shudder to think of any Microsoft friendly legislation coming before the new President - this is a clear signal that he will support MS over non-MS objectives.
My first thought was that now we knew who BO's corporate masters are. Then, I had a different idea: he may be doing this to pay back Microsoft for services rendered by doing something that doesn't commit him to anything else. Then, when they come to him to get favorable laws passed (or unfavorable ones killed) they have less leverage because they have one less chit to call in. After all, just because he owes them a favor that doesn't always mean that they get to decide when or how he pays them back. I'm no BO supporter, and never have been, but I wish him well and I'm not going to condemn him without more evidence than we now have.
Within the limits (your own personal limits) of consumption that don't cause you to have bad side affects (digestive, insomnia, whatever), the more the better...period.
So, it's true, then, is it? Coffee really is the drink of the gods? We've long known, of course, that chocolate is the food of the gods, so I guess that chocolate covered coffee beans are the most wonderful dish in the world?
or add a firefox plugin translating 'sponsored links' to 'scammers links' on google.com.
I like your idea, but it's not quite fair. Not all, or even most of the sponsored links are from scammers. Maybe a plugin putting those words into blink would be better.
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Well, to be fair, why should a teacher pay much much more attention to one child over any other child?
Maybe because that extra attention will prevent that child from being left behind? Sometimes, that's the difference between a child who ends up functionally illiterate and one who reads slowly, but effectively.
Considering the way lazy teachers use a diagnosis of dyslexia as an excuse for not doing their job and teaching all their students to read, they may well be. (Yes, I do know that there really is such a thing as dyslexia -- I have a friend who's severely dyslexic [He still reads more books every year than most people because he doesn't let it stop him.] -- but most children who are diagnosed with it can and do learn if they ever encounter a teacher who's willing to put in the effort, or a program to teach children how to read.) A century ago, the idea that anybody could reach sixth grade without being literate would have been considered absurd; today, it's a given.
I'll go even further: not only won't I be buying it, I won't be using it.
And let us not forget 4) not tied to any specific computer architecture or OS. It should be usable from Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac or whatever else you want to use.
I never said those two were the best; just that they're my personal favorites. There's something about having a flying saucer crashed through the wall over the main entrance that tickles my fancy.
She also talks about the climate "going back to normal." Either she's a fraud or an ignoramus, because when it comes to climate, the only thing normal is change. The climate is always getting warmer or colder and the "normal" she's babbling on about is nothing other than the tag end of the Little Ice Age.
It's a conspiracy theory; it doesn't have to make any sense.
Alas, only about a third of them have themes. Of those, my personal favorite is the Burbank Fry's: Alien Invasions of the '50s. The one in the City of Industry is rather cool, too: it's designed to look like the inside of a factory.
In TFA, Matthew Richards is quoted as saying, "We didn't achieve mass customization of cars until Ford thought up the assembly line." No, Mr. Richards, that's not what Ford's assembly line achieved. It achieved mass production of essentially identical cars. That's why, for many years, you could buy a Ford in any color you wanted, as long as you wanted black. Similarly, you can use this software to produce any custom Linux you want, as long as you want it based on Open SuSe.
So what he's saying is, this plan to censor the Internet is so offensive that it should be censored, right?
Is that a tool for removing malicious software, or a malicious tool for removing software? Enquiring minds want to know!
I've never had to deal with it, and as I don't "do" Windows, I probably never will. However, I get the impression that Vista's UAC is hated because it pops up that dialog for every, single, solitary change that's made while you're installing a program, even though you've already given the Administrator password. And, while I'm thinking of it, UAC may be based on the Linux security model, but it's certainly not a copy of it. In Linux, you give the password once, when the installation program starts, and and that's all the authorization needed. I've done system updates with forty or more packages being downloaded and installed, with old versions removed, and except for checking with me to make sure that I want it to go ahead (It asks me once, and once only, for the entire transaction.) It Just Works.
Some of the ISPs would lower their prices as a marketing tool. The rest would either have to go along, or be left behind in the dust.
It all depends on how you look at it. As an end-user of email, you're right. Almost no spam gets into the inbox on my gmail account. Some gets through the filters on my POP3 accounts, though, but most of that gets caught by the filters in Thunderbird. However, I'd bet that the people running and maintaining mail servers at ISPs wouldn't agree with you because spam is probably wasting at least as much of their bandwidth as ever. We don't see it because their filters have gotten pretty good, but then, the time, CPU cycles, memory and disk space needed for those programs adds, slightly, to the cost of business of every provider, as does that bandwidth I mentioned above. I'd bet that if spam were to "softly and silently vanish away, and never be seen again," our monthly ISP fees would drop.
The first Doc Smith I ever read was Skylark of Valeron. Somehow, I've never been able to view Blacky DuQuesne as a villain.
Somehow, your .sig seems remarkably appropriate for this comment. I congratulate you! Besides, I'm always ready to appreciate a quote from First Lensman, a long-forgotten classic of space opera.
I find that highly unlikely. After all, these are computer geeks; they've probably never gotten near enough to any woman except their mother to...
Oh...
Never mind!
Do you expect them to be punished once BO takes over? Considering the sweetheart deal they got for streaming the Inauguration, I rather doubt it.
Shrug! So, you download it on another box and transfer it with a thumb drive. Or, if that's not good enough for you, there's always command line ftp. I'm no more a Microsoft fanboi than you are, but at least I don't try to hide behind straw men.
You do realize, don't you, that the Earth's path through space is curved, and that a curved trajectory requires acceleration? If there weren't any force acting on the car, it would continue moving in a straight line tangent to the Earth's position at the time the acceleration stopped.
We are all moving through space relative to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, but we don't need to be space ships because, relative to the surface of the Earth, we're not moving and and that's the frame of reference we're most interested in. In the Back to the Future movies, the DeLorian moved in time, but stayed close enough to its original position (relative to the Earth) that there wasn't ever a problem. The only time there'd be trouble would be if shifting your position in time caused you to stay in the same position relative to far away galaxies while the Earth continued to move. In terms of physics, that might be the most logical outcome of time travel, but I've always found the "staying in one place on the Earth's surface" form of time travel to be more plausible. I wouldn't swear to it, but I can't, off hand, think of an SF story about time travel that didn't work that way. If so, the BTTF movies are just conforming to the conventional treatment of time travel.
No. That would have been a non-story because there are plugins for Flash for all modern browsers running under (probably) any modern OS that you care to use. That would make it easy for anybody who wanted to watch the inauguration through the official website, instead of excluding everybody who isn't using Windows.
My first thought was that now we knew who BO's corporate masters are. Then, I had a different idea: he may be doing this to pay back Microsoft for services rendered by doing something that doesn't commit him to anything else. Then, when they come to him to get favorable laws passed (or unfavorable ones killed) they have less leverage because they have one less chit to call in. After all, just because he owes them a favor that doesn't always mean that they get to decide when or how he pays them back. I'm no BO supporter, and never have been, but I wish him well and I'm not going to condemn him without more evidence than we now have.
So, it's true, then, is it? Coffee really is the drink of the gods? We've long known, of course, that chocolate is the food of the gods, so I guess that chocolate covered coffee beans are the most wonderful dish in the world?
I like your idea, but it's not quite fair. Not all, or even most of the sponsored links are from scammers. Maybe a plugin putting those words into blink would be better.